AIMA workers on strike to ask for increases and technical career

“ A decision arises in a context of internal instability in the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA), marked by the exit of the president of the institution and the absence of advances in negotiations on the creation of a technical career of its own and the award of a remuneration supplement equivalent to that recognized to GNR and PSP ", says the STM, in a statement.

For the STM, “these demands are long-identified structural needs, which involve the enhancement of technical migration functions, the recognition of their specificity and complexity, and the equalization of remuneration to other entities that perform border control functions”.

The union also criticizes what it considers to be “the increasing transfer of permanent tasks from the State to the Local Support Centers for the Integration of Migrants (CLAIM)” and calls for “clear limits to these functions and the safeguarding of AIMA’s nuclear powers, whose devaluation has led to late, ill-educated and legally fragile decisions, increasing litigation and pressure on workers”.

The STM also advocates “the appreciation of the career of migration technicians, including structured initial training, formal recognition of specialized functions and the urgent appointment of leadership with experience in the area of migration, capable of ensuring stability and technical knowledge in the direction” of the agency.

In the statement, the president of the STM, Manuela Niza Ribeiro, recalled that the request for hearing was submitted to guardianship when another ministry recognized the technical specificity of migratory functions.

“ We want equal treatment. We asked for a meeting and until today there has been no answer ", said.